Canadian Aid for Southern Sudan is a human rights and development organization.

Sudan, Africa

London, Ontario, Canada | casscanada.net | cass.can@sympatico.ca

Revenue Canada charitable registration BN: 86394 8212 RR0001

CASS Annual Fundraising Concert

The annual CASS fundraising concert, held this year on November 7, 2010, included retired Lt.-General Romeo Dallaire as an honoured guest speaker. In addition to Romeo Dallaire, Jane Roy delivered an update on the work of CASS in Sudan, and a bounty of special music was performed by a number of local London musical groups.

Romeo Dallaire was the head of the UN mission during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He recalled seeing a little boy left in the road, the survivor of a massacre that had killed his family. “That little boy in the middle of that genocide was just as human as my son back home in Quebec City. Today my son is graduated and doing well … what happened to that little boy?” he said. Dallaire also spoke out against the use of child soldiers in the recent conflict in Sudan, as well as many other conflicts around the world. For more information about Romeo Dallaire and his mission to eliminate the use of child soldiers around the world, visit www.zeroforce.com. Another resource is his recent book, “They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children”.

Musical talent was provided by the Stephen Holowitz Jazz Ensemble, the Medway Concert Choir, the A.B. Lucas Choir, the Banting Male Chorus, and the Mountsfield Choir. Perennial favourite soloist Denise Pelley also sang several pieces, including a moving duet with Glen Pearson called “Song for a Child Soldier”.

If you would like to see some pictures from a previous concert, click here.

[TOP]